Donald Trump defends Vladimir Putin: 'I haven’t seen any evidence that he killed anybody'
Source: Business Insider
ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos on Sunday repeatedly confronted real-estate tycoon Donald Trump over his praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.
Putin and Trump traded compliments last week, with the Russian president calling Trump a "very talented" person. Trump embraced Putin's praise as a "great honor."
Like MSNBC's Joe Scarborough before him, Stephanopoulos on Sunday asked Trump about Putin's status as a strongman, including allegations that the Kremlin has been involved in orchestrating the deaths of political opponents and journalists.
Stephanopoulos particularly pressed Trump on his Friday "Morning Joe" comments, in which he said that "our country does a lot of killing, also.
Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/abcs-george-stephanopoulos-confronts-donald-162607687.html
Of, course, Trump didn't demand "evidence" two years ago when he was disgustingly pushing his buddy Alex Jones' debunked tinfoil hat conspiracy theories about President Obama:
https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/411247268763676673
Expect Morning Joe and the rest of the Trump-loving media to question Donald on this hypocrisy a week from never.
And when are the rightwing patriotism police going to denounce Trump for accusing our military of doing "a lot of killing." Had a Democrat said anything remotely like that, Hannity and co. would have accused them of "hating America" and replayed the clip endlessly for years.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)PatrickforO
(14,577 posts)No EVIDENCE???
And this guy is the FRONT RUNNER in the Republican race???
Shit.
saltpoint
(50,986 posts)a quick-reference assessment of Donald Trump:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2015/dec/08/donald-trump-muslims-philadelphia-mayor-michael-nutter-video?CMP=share_btn_gp
I think Mayor Nutter has it right.
trillion
(1,859 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)to have made a pretty concise assessment of The Donald.
William Seger
(10,779 posts)His BFF Alex Jones will certainly use that quote in his next Sandy Hook rant.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)or has taste. And I've seen plenty of evidence that he is a gutter mouth rube.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Jarqui
(10,126 posts)https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/678501512088297478
Donald J. Trump Verified account ?@realDonaldTrump 1:05 AM - 20 Dec 2015
Hillary Clinton lied when she said that "ISIS is using video of Donald Trump as a recruiting tool." This was fact checked by @FoxNews: FALSE
LS_Editor
(893 posts)To think, it all started with a little sexting...
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Sexting for Over Six Months
http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/12/gop-republican-presidential-candidate-donald-trump-and-russian-president-vladimir-putin-sexting-for-over-six-months.html
lanlady
(7,134 posts)thanks to Tsar Vova's war of aggression in Ukraine, woman and children included.
Not to mention MH17 which was shot down by his henchmen on the ground in East Ukraine.
Putin's hands are drenched in blood, but not to worry, Donald Trump has his back!
GeeNeeUs
(40 posts)...a decent human being.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Gregorian
(23,867 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,350 posts)And, oh yeah, the Crimean peninsula.
Ukraine.
Boris Nemtsoff
A few reporters
But other than that, yeah, maybe, mostly agree
Wash. state Desk Jet
(3,426 posts)lastlib
(23,248 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)kacekwl
(7,017 posts)denouncing Trump as a communist ?
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)It's not as if these ... people ... have principles of the OWN!
bdwker
(435 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Just saying....
the_phantom_dennis
(28 posts)According to The Donald, it's a fact that hundreds or even thousands of Muslims
were celebrating in New Jersey on 9/11, despite zero evidence, but it's a myth that Putin's
regime has killed journalists, despite massive evidence.
Eric Blair would be SO proud!
bulloney
(4,113 posts)But he's been sitting in prison for over 40 years and will never walk out as a free man because his followers carried out his orders.
patsimp
(915 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)lark
(23,105 posts)would kill the world together.
Shimmershine
(16 posts)Even some conservatives think he is nuts.
randys1
(16,286 posts)alfredo
(60,074 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)"Darling, do you love me?"
"Well, I haven't seen any evidence that you've killed anybody. What? Why are you looking at me like that?"
Bad Dog
(2,025 posts)trillion
(1,859 posts)Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)primary voters?